BIO: NELSON SINCLAIR - WAYNE CO., KY

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Contributed by: Diana Flynn "ivie@tima.com"
Date: Wednesday, July 01, 1998
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SINCLAIR,  SHELTON,  TARTER,  LAWRENCE

"HISTORY OF GREENE AND SULLIVAN COUNTIES, STATE OF
INDIANA, FROM THE EARLIEST TIME TO THE PRESENT;  TOGETHER WITH INTERESTING
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, REMINISCENCES, NOTES, ETC."  CHICAGO:  GOODSPEED
BROS. & CO., PUBLISHERS.  1884.

GREENE CO., INDIANA
FAIRPLAY TWP.
PAGE 404

NELSON SINCLAIR, farmer and tile manufacturer, is a native of Wayne County,
Ky., and is descended from an old and honored Scottish family, which traces its
ancestry far back into the history of the United Kingdoms.  Both his maternal
and paternal grandparents were among the early settlers of the Old Dominion,
which was the birthplace of his parents, from whence they removed to Kentucky
at an early day.  When a small boy, Nelson was taken by his parents to
Breckinridge County, Ky., and from there to Orange County, Ind., where after a
residence of eighteen years his father died.  The widow then removed to Greene
County, Ind., induced so to do by a daughter who had married and preceeded
them.  Nelson Sinclair is one of the following-named family of children:
Patsy, Nelson, Joseph, Isaac, Nancy (deceased), Fannie, and Mrs. Shelton, of
Howard County, this State.  He was joined in marriage in 1848 with Miss
Elizabeth Tarter, a native of Pulaski County, Ky., and a daughter of John and
Nancy (Lawrence) Tarter, and to their union the following children were born:
Ellen (deceased), Jane Wyley, Carrie J., Martha, Francis M., Albert (deceased),
Edward, William D., and Lovell H., who was named in honor of Gen. L. H.
Rousseau, a distinguished soldier of the Mexican war and the rebellion.  Mr.
Sinclair was the first to engage in the manufacture of tile in Fairplay
Township, and at this he is yet employed, and is also operating a farm, in both
branches of business making a success.  He is a substantial and much esteemed
citizen.

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